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<blockquote data-quote="exmoor dave" data-source="post: 7489733" data-attributes="member: 623"><p>Off topic, but we're directly across the vale from porlock hill, yet have a completely different style of field boundary- one sided walls, where the field level on the uphill side is level to the top of the wall, so historically the wall was only stock proof to the stock down hill from the wall.</p><p>The same style of wall rings the block against the cliffs, with a quite substantial wall built through the cliffs. </p><p>There's no trees on these single walls, there's gorse now, bit we don't know if there would have been historically.</p><p>Dad reckons thorn was cut elsewhere and moved to these walls as a dead hedge when say a crop was planted. </p><p>Should really look up the age, I reckon the single walls predate the remaining few banked/ walled both sides beech hedges.</p><p></p><p>There is a a iron age hill fort in the block and a ruined settlement mentioned in the doomsday book, plus various other bits that sit in age between the two. </p><p></p><p>Another field, approx 20acs, named "newfield' was enclosed from the moor, by a previous tenant, the story goes, he laid the last stone on the boundary wall and promptly died!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="exmoor dave, post: 7489733, member: 623"] Off topic, but we're directly across the vale from porlock hill, yet have a completely different style of field boundary- one sided walls, where the field level on the uphill side is level to the top of the wall, so historically the wall was only stock proof to the stock down hill from the wall. The same style of wall rings the block against the cliffs, with a quite substantial wall built through the cliffs. There's no trees on these single walls, there's gorse now, bit we don't know if there would have been historically. Dad reckons thorn was cut elsewhere and moved to these walls as a dead hedge when say a crop was planted. Should really look up the age, I reckon the single walls predate the remaining few banked/ walled both sides beech hedges. There is a a iron age hill fort in the block and a ruined settlement mentioned in the doomsday book, plus various other bits that sit in age between the two. Another field, approx 20acs, named "newfield' was enclosed from the moor, by a previous tenant, the story goes, he laid the last stone on the boundary wall and promptly died! [/QUOTE]
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